WARNER EL

Located at 10400 WARNER SMITH BLVD, in CYPRESS, Texas, WARNER EL is a high-enrollment elementary school that caters to 1,168 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 125% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 117,927 students; WARNER EL is among them.

On demographics, WARNER EL reports that 32% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 7% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WARNER EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WARNER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.8%; this one delivers 73.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. WARNER EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

SMITH MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WARNER EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WARNER EL has shrank 11%, going from 1,309 students in 2018 to 1,168 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 45% to 28%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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